Gawker: valleywag, jason defillippo

Paul Cloutier needs a sense of humor, says employee

Owen Thomas — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 14:04:57 EDT

Remember the ihate.vc website created by Jason DeFillippo, CTO at magazine startup 8020 Publishing? The site, until this morning, displayed a big middle finger directed at venture capitalists, an ill-advised gesture for an executive at a capital-starved startup. DeFillippo has now redirected ihate.vc to a definition for "sense of humor." We assume he was hoping to have his boss, Paul Cloutier, 8020's controlling and devious CEO, look the term up. Good luck with that, Jason.

Sand Hill Road gets the finger

Owen Thomas — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 12:18:20 EDT

Venture capitalists are always running around prattling about how they "love entrepreneurs." Alas, lovelorn moneybags, it seems the feeling is not requited. Jason DeFillippo, the CTO of 8020 Publishing, a user-generated magazine publishing startup, has registered the domain name "ihate.vc" and posted the above mash note to investors. I can't imagine this bodes well for 8020's future fundraising efforts. (Screenshot from ihate.vc)

Jason DeFillippo walks out Technorati's door with Niall Kennedy

ndouglas — Tue, 14 Feb 2006 17:18:05 EST

UPDATE: Derek Powazek is reportedly leaving Technorati too. The blog-search company's senior designer joined in 2004 and has since made the site all bubbly. Where's Powazek heading?

Jason DeFillippo is leaving Technorati as he planned, according to a close source. The Metroblogging co-founder (and Blogrolling inventor) is still listed as an engineer at the blogging search engine, though he announced his exit last month.

He's just one of several senior Technorati members leaving the once-hot startup. Even the receptionist is out. What caused the exodus? Were lines exchanged at the Flickr Turns 2 party? Something come to a head at Codecon? Or is everyone sick of waiting for a buyout?

Meanwhile, Niall Kennedy announced today that he's leaving too. The Technorati community manager will stay until March 1. The way Om puts it, Niall's looking for more work, but a whole crowd exiting seems to scream "new hot startup."

On V-Day, Niall Breaks up with Technorati [Om Malik]
A leap of faith and a change of pace [J.P.DeFillippo]